NVIDIA RTX 3000 (Ampere)

I remember getting 1080Ti for 62k from Amazon US GlobalShipping right when it was launched for 700USD.

Back in 2017 Amazon GlobalShipping charged between 12-18% tax which was prepaid and shipping was also very cheap.

Amazon probably lost a ton of money on that sale, since customs ended up charging like 20-30k for some reason and I didn't have to pay a cent of that.

Unfortunately now tax is like 42% on Amazon and shipping is much more expensive.
 
I'd rather go for the ps5 if its just for gaming.
A 3000 series build would cost around 1,30,000 (considering it would require at least a 3700x to avoid bottleneck)
Even if the ps5 ends up costing 50k , you could still buy all ps5 exclusive titles day one with the money remaining.
 
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Oh and also you might need to drop 25k 16k on the motherboard if you want PCIe gen 4 to get the most out of the 3000 series.
 
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Quoting nvidia here

Q: Will customers find a performance degradation on PCIE 3.0?

System performance is impacted by many factors and the impact varies between applications. The impact is typically less than a few percent going from a x16 PCIE 4.0 to x16 PCIE 3.0. CPU selection often has a larger impact on performance. We look forward to new platforms that can fully take advantage of Gen4 capabilities for potential performance increases. Note also, all benchmarks and performance data on our website and presented by Jensen was from a PCIE 3.0 platform.
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Source - GeForce RTX 30 Series Community Q&A: You Asked, We Answered

TLDR - No, you don't need PCIe gen 4 to take full advantage of RTX 3080 and even RTX 3090
 

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Relevent part about PCIe gen4 starts at 7:17
 

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